Associate – Environmental Engineering

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Job Responsibilities

Facilitate the Implementation of the different Environmental & Safety Programs.

• Serve as primary Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) contact for the assigned areas.
• Serve as a resource for operational areas to help them understand regulatory requirements and programs and collaborate with them to implement compliant solutions.
• Facilitate the implementation of HSE programs and permits and provide technical support on assigned programs.
• Conduct periodic visits and inspections to the areas, participate in regulatory inspections, site self-assessments and audits, as required.
• Work together with area’s Management to achieve HSE objectives and goals.
• Work and facilitate execution of actions and plans for HSE events reduction.
• Be a technical resource to review and approve event investigations and change controls.
• Identify areas to improve, suggest alternatives and work as a team with the operational areas to implement the improvements.
• Conduct/facilitate HSE events investigations.
• Be on call 24 hours/7 days to assist our clients.
• Responsible to revise the written program and training, offer applicable trainings, design the implementation strategy, work directly with the areas for implementation and troubleshooting, audit compliance, follow up until completion and be a technical resource for the assigned programs.
• Know the basic concepts of Safety and PSM (Process Safety Management) applicability at the site to support changes and events evaluations.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Environmental)
• EIT or Professional Engineering (PE) license, preferred
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in the HSE field, required.
• Experience in manufacturing support role.
• Solid technical expertise/understanding of Health and Safety OSHA standards and Environmental regulations (DNER, EPA) and experience in the implementation of different programs.
• Fully bilingual with written, verbal and oral communication skills (English /Spanish)
• Strong leadership and organizational skills
• Strong technical writing skills
• Strong customer service focus
• Experience dealing with regulatory inspections (Ex presentations to agencies).

Additional Skills/Preferences:

Ability to:

• Establish positive interpersonal relations and interact effectively with people
• Strong compliance mindset and make sound decisions and exercise good judgment in special situations
• Work independently from broad guidelines to achieve specific results

Capabilities:

• Anticipate the implications and consequences of situations and take appropriate action to prepare for possible contingencies
• Use a logical, systematic approach to problem solving
• Identify information needed to clarify a situation, seek that information from appropriate sources and use skillful questioning to draw out the information
• Focus on a desired end result, set challenging objectives, pursue them tenaciously and meet or exceed those objectives
• Strong self-management
• Good organizational skills
• Self-starter, teamwork oriented
• Knowledge in managing multiple project objectives or assignments

Others:

• Available to work or provide support to a 24/7 operation, if necessary
• Availability to travel within and outside Puerto Rico and U.S.
• Work as a resource in other strategic areas of the business, based on business needs.

Important Notice: In order to maintain the excellent reputation of our company, the quality of our products, and the safety of our working environment, the company will take all reasonable measures to ensure that drug abuse by employees or other persons does not jeopardize the safety of our operations or the quality of our products or adversely affect in any way the company or its employees. The company recognizes that drug use both on and off the job can be detrimental to the company and its efforts to provide a drug-free workplace. Even if prescribed under a state medical marijuana law, marijuana remains illegal under federal law. Marijuana is considered unauthorized by Lilly.

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Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

$51,000 - $148,500

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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